Anglia68
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Jul 13, 2013 17:26:45 GMT
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This may be a bit cheating as it's not current and it's not mine but I did help my boss to build it. This project goes back to 2008 and took a good year to do and even longer in planning. Early progress pics are sadly lacking but as the room progressed so did the documentation. We started off by having steelwork erected free floating from the rest of the building and then built up from that. Here's one of the earliest photos showing pretty good progress as we've already started on the roof trusses. The approx. size is 6m long x 5m wide x 4m high which apparently conforms to some ideal size for sound or something. You can tell I was the labourer rather than the brains behind it. As we're already up to the ceiling here you can see the roof joists being insulated to act as bass traps with rockwool insulation and a covering of plasterboard and numerous cartridges of acoustic sealant. The next pic shows the joys of constructing the room in a converted former Victorian iron foundry with tie-rods slicing through the corner of the room at one point and the charming iron sheet roof high above which turns makes working under it like being in a furnace. Also a big problem was the huge wooden roof beam which dissected the room and can be seen here provng ideal for some temporary lighting. Here's one of the first roof to wall corner bass traps being built, stuffed with insulation and finished off with wrapped rockwool for a nicer look. If this is of interest to any of you I'll show how the build went and how the room performed and how it looks today.
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Last Edit: Jul 13, 2013 17:27:31 GMT by Anglia68
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Jul 13, 2013 21:06:54 GMT
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yep. sounds interesting.
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More German exotica in my garage now
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Jul 13, 2013 21:23:57 GMT
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Yes please, I'm keen to see how it looks now...
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Cheers for the interest guys. The whole idea of this room was to keep it free standing and isolated from the original building which was a little tricky with that huge wooden beam dissecting the room into two. Luckily the spacing of the new beams meant that the old one sat pretty equal between two of them which made bridging it a little bit easier for me to do. You can just see the first couple of bridging pieces in the next photo as well as the finished half of the ceiling with it's three bass traps and the start of a corner one. It took a couple of attempts to get the angles right for the bridging pieces but in the end they came out looking not too bad. It was also insulated and used as a bass trap as well as a convenient place to put some more lights. Here we've almost completed one end of the room and I'm busy making the corner bass traps that, although they don't look it, are totally suspended from the walls and don't actually touch the floor.
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Hi-fi room.MiataMark
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Jul 14, 2013 14:43:46 GMT
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I'm intrigued to know what equipment is going in... must be something pretty special to warrant all this work.
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Jul 14, 2013 14:52:25 GMT
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I did home cinema installation for a very brief period some time back. This is way more in depth than we ever did. Our bass traps were freestanding (something I never really agreed with) for example.
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Jul 14, 2013 18:09:41 GMT
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If this is just for listening to audio i am amazed!
Most people i know don't even go into the amount of depth for recording studios, let alone a room for their hi fi.
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Jul 15, 2013 16:10:44 GMT
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I'm intrigued to know what equipment is going in... must be something pretty special to warrant all this work. Initially it was a Moon cd player and a pair of Dynaudio speakers with some Chord cables I believe.The photos shows them in their temporary home before my boss made custom isolation platforms for everything.
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Jul 15, 2013 16:34:47 GMT
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My boss installed a fully programmable lighting system as well with some pretty cool lights. One of the more time consuming jobs was using a core drill to put a 90mm hole through the new 6" aircrete block wall, something like a 150mm air gap and then 300+mm of old brick to the outside at a 3* downward angle for the air-con unit we fitted. Just over an hour later we had our hole and the unit was fitted in to place. Along both side walls my boss constructed movable reflection point traps so the room could be fine tuned. We also filled the office end with more bass traps, a window, which he never uses, a corresponding feature on the opposing wall and a bl**dy big door. We also fitted a few electrical outlets around the place. The room has it's own dedicated supply which passes through several transformers to clean up the power as well.
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Jul 15, 2013 16:50:08 GMT
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Jul 15, 2013 17:17:51 GMT
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I mean wow this must have cost a few quid but it looks like hes just chucked the hifi in the room! I was expecting remote control hideway stuff the graphs look very nice but I havnt got a clue what they mean.
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I mean wow this must have cost a few quid but it looks like hes just chucked the hifi in the room! I was expecting remote control hideway stuff the graphs look very nice but I havnt got a clue what they mean. That's probably £30-50K of electronics don't think you'd want to hide it away. Actually maybe more having just looked up Moon CD player on google. Also support of the components is as critical as the rest. Good to see the type of music it's being used for, judging by the chalk board...
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WOW! Awesome
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Jul 18, 2013 21:58:22 GMT
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As previously mentioned the components were placed in the room temporarily until we had time to custom make isolation platforms and racks for them all. Here is how they ended up and the speakers were precisely placed in the room. It more or less remained this way up until fairly recently when there was a change to a pair of KEF Blade speakers and a few extra bass traps on the back wall.
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Very nice, is this purely for personal use or does it have a commercial purpose?
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Jul 19, 2013 10:12:37 GMT
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Impressive amount of effort gone in to this. Just looked up the price of the Kef's! I now see why so much effort has gone in to it!
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Jul 19, 2013 10:54:53 GMT
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I'm guessing your boss is a bloke. A woman would not tolerate wires on show.
Ever.
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Jul 19, 2013 11:26:06 GMT
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Amazing work and lucky you.
Don't forget to use interconnects and cables that have been freeze dried and waved over the equator and subjected to oxygen-free moon radiation. It will speed up the electrons and make sure they march in the right direction ;-)
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Jul 19, 2013 18:15:58 GMT
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It started off as being just for personal use but has now become a second business for my boss while I look after our main business.
It's not my money so I have no say in how much things cost.
The cables have to be on show as we are now dealers for them.
I rarely use the room myself.
Most if not all the cables are by Chord and they do make a noticeable difference in quality and performance.
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